·noun Conversation; talk.
II. Discourse ·noun Dealing; transaction.
III. Discourse ·vt To talk to; to confer with.
IV. Discourse ·noun The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
V. Discourse ·vi To treat of something in writing and formally.
VI. Discourse ·vt To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
VII. Discourse ·vi To relate something; to Tell.
VIII. Discourse ·vt To utter or give forth; to Speak.
IX. Discourse ·vi To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to Reason.
X. Discourse ·noun Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, ·etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
XI. Discourse ·vi To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to Speak; to Converse.
XII. Discourse ·noun The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.